Fair To Midland
"Fables From A Mayfly What I Tell You Three Times Is True"

In a person's life, there are good periods, less good periods, and then there are those, the shitty periods. You know those times when life makes you long for when the bully on duty made fun of you because you were fat (not that it ever happened to me eh ... go ahead, delude yourself idiot) but still, the album I'm about to review helped me get through one of the aforementioned periods. We're talking about "Fables From A Mayfly What I Tell You Three Times Is True" by my beloved Fair To Midland, of course. What can I say, we are talking about a fantastic album from various points of view, but obviously not perfect, so if your life is made up only of: technique, tupatupa, constant time changes, frantic tapping, and improbable times of "dreamtheatariana memory" (well done idiot, you lost half of the audience... but it doesn't matter) you can avoid continuing the reading (but if you want you can stay, I won't be offended eh).

If instead, for you, music is also made of warm and enveloping emotions like a hot chocolate in November (if I had gone into make-up I would have finished earlier perhaps, given the crap I write) then this is the album for you, because no matter what your problems are, this album will surely give you a hand. Want an example? Things aren't going well with your girlfriend at the moment? Here our friends answer with one of the verses that has remained tattooed on my heart for two years now,

"Sufficed to say there's a time and a place,
So I wait,
For the tug-of-war and who you'll pull for,
While between you and me from point A to point B is a fine line,
That burns at both our good ends,"

I'll leave the interpretation to you, whatever it may be, I'm sure it will be right. Then what else to say about this album? Except that it is sung divinely by a kick-ass singer like Darroh, that at least 10 out of 12 songs are damn masterpieces, I can mention to you: the splendid intro of "Vice/Versa", the fantastic chorus of "The Wife, The Kids, And The White Picket Fence" or the dreamy verses of "Say When" (by the way, here too there is one of the most beautiful and evocative choruses I can remember).

I have nothing else to add, except to tell you that this album is for you if you want to feel a little better about yourself, so do your soul a favor (you know I think with sentences like these people get pissed off... shut up you!!!)